



Daler Mehndi 'Bolo Ta Ra Ra' became a huge success and sold over 20 million copies (it was his debut song). In the same year, he signed a three-album contract with Magnasound, which was his debut as a pop music singer.

In the year 1995, he stopped singing ghazals and shifted to pop music. In the year 1991, he came back to India and made his music band in which he used to sing ghazals. When he turned 14, he took 3 years to learn musical instruments like the Tabla, the Dhokla, the Harmonium, and worked on improving his voice with Late Ustad Raahat Ali Khan Saheb.Īfter a few years, Daler Mehndi shifted to San Francisco and started working there as a cab driver. He gave his first-ever performance when he was 13 years old in front of 20,000 people in Uttar Pradesh. He has made cameo appearances in many Bollywood movies as well lent his voice for songs such as Arjun Pandit (1999) and Khauff (2000).Daler Mehndi started singing from the age of 6 and was taught singing by his parents from the ragas and Shabads from the Guru Granth Sahib. In The year 1997, Daler Mehndi ventured into playback singing and made his first appearance on the large screen with the Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan in his comeback movie Mrityudaata (1997). He has given several hits to the music industry including the world famous Internet phenomenon Tunak Tunak Tun (1998) which is a rage on YouTube and Bolo Ta Ra Ra (1995) Highly influenced from the Patiala Gharana style of music, Daler ran away from home at the age of 11 to be trained by the renowned Late Ustad Raahat Ali Khan and gave his first stage performance at the age of 13 where his parents found him onstage amidst his fans who were showering flowers and currency notes upon him.Įver since then Daler Singh Mehndi has been a renowned performer, entertainer and a Industry renowned musician. Bought up in a family of musicians, he has been practicing the various iterations of Indian classical music such as Ragas and Shabads from the holy book of the Sikhs 'Guru Granth Sahib Ji.' Daler Singh Mehndi was born in Patna, Bihar on August 18, 1967.
